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Post by cornquacker on Mar 21, 2010 20:53:00 GMT -5
Just saw STS9 the other night. Good molly, cool lights but the same old schtick. It's still fun but this band is not nearly as interesting as their big fans claim.
Just saw STS9 the other night. Good molly, cool lights but the same old schtick. It's still fun but this band is not nearly as interesting as their big fans claim.
Post by Laggy.RETURNS on Mar 21, 2010 21:54:18 GMT -5
So last night my friend was begging me to come see RX Bandits with her. She generally has decent taste in music, but her music choices are questionable at times, so I was a little skeptical. I thought they were some poppy punk or emo band. I pulled up a few songs and found that wasn't the case, but was unimpressed anyway. but I reluctantly went because she offered to pay half my ticket and buy me a beer. Goddamn am I glad I did. What a smurfin show! They kicked SO much ass live I can scarcely describe. They played their entire new album for the first time, which felt like en epic moment (even though I'd never heard any of the songs). And the crowd was so into it, as was I. So intimate and so much energy. And that guy is so into the music, you can really feel it. 2nd best surprise I've ever had as far as liking a band I didn't expect to (the first being phish).
Post by questionablesanity on Mar 22, 2010 6:52:51 GMT -5
I took my son to see Yo Gabba Gabba on Saturday in Cincinnati. It was a typical kid's show where you over pay for tickets ($35 each), pay for an over priced tshirt ($22), a glow wand ($10) but have the time of your life. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration but it was pretty damn good. There was a pretty good light show/stage production. DJ Lance Rock came out first but his microphone wasn't workin but was quickly remedied. The first half was about 30 minutes, then they did the balloon song and dropped hundreds of balloons. They took a 20 minute intermission and that 20 minutes was pure chaos with all of the balloons and a bunch of toddlers running around. It was great. My son had so much fun. The last half was another 30 minute set which included the "special guest" for the dancey dance song. Usually they fly in a guest like Snoop, Jack Black, Sarah Silverman, the Roots, etc.... When DJ Lance said it was time for the Dancey Dance song, everyone got pretty excited, then the special guest came out.....crickets.......almost complete silence. It was some local DJ. You should have seen the look of disappointment on some of the parents' faces around me. Then came the highlight of the show. Biz Markie came out to do Biz's Beat of the Day. It was silly and very short but the parents went crazy. Biz just let some kids beat box into his mic which was funny and you could tell he enjoyed every minute of it. Then it was over. Oh, one of the best parts was upon entrance to the show, everyone got cardboard DJ Lance Rock Glasses. I wish I'd have brought my camera with me because it was a sight to see all of these grown men begrudgingly wearing these glasses for their kids.
A Thieve's Parade 2/24 Conspirator 2/26 Kevin Smith 3/11 Keller 3/17 Papadosio 3/18 JJ Grey 3/25 Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer 3/26 Toubab Krewe 3/27 O'Death 4/11 Budos Band 4/22 EOTO 4/28 Summer Camp 5/6-29 All Good
I think he introduces the band as Thom Yorke and The Spoon That Dropped His Pudding. noD should confirm this.
Awesome pictures by the way. You taking that camera to Coachella?
Haha I didn't hear that, but he does bear a resemblance to Thom Yorke in those pictures, just without the wanky eye.
I plan on bringing the camera and taking an obnoxious amount of pictures. I'm still trying to figure out how to take better pictures at night/dark club. I'm getting better (burst mode has really helped) I just wish I was more consistent. I must have taken 600 pictures the other night and only 50 or so were decent.
I recently did the 3 night Umphrey's McGee run in Minneapolis at First Avenue. AMAZING. Not as good as their New Year's Eve runs for me personally, but I loved Minneapolis. The crowds were decent, they played a few covers i'd never heard before (That's All and Making Flippy Floppy) plus some of their newer releases. Pretty excited to see them at Summer Camp and possibly All Good. Love those guys
if you look i'm sure you'd see that nothing's really as it seems and soon enough you'd realize you promise more than you'll provide the substance that we're hoping for will always leave us needing more we're calloused til we cannot feel the only moments that were real
Saw Florence & the Machine & Temper Trap tonight. Florence is amazing. She doesn't have the most perfect voice in the world, but makes up for it with great stage presence and a very good backing band. The crowd was super into it. Temper Trap was good, but didn't blow me away. After a bit all the songs sounded alike, but to be fair I'm not that familiar with their music.
TT should really have been the opener, imo. A good portion of the crowd left before they came on. It's tough to follow a kick ass girl singer.
Wilco tonight - wow. Holy nuts. They played for just a couple minutes shy of three hours! The place was relatively small - it probably only held 2500 or so. We were up towards the back (about 100 feet from the front), but dead center. Tweedy had some great banter with the audience. Here's the setlist:
—"The Price Is Right" theme music intro— Wilco (the song) Bull Black Nova You Are My Face I Am Trying to Break Your Heart> One Wing A Shot in the Arm One By One Either Way Company In My Back Sonny Feeling Handshake NO NO WORD!!! Impossible Germany It's Just That Simple California Stars Poor Places> ----into acoustic set---- Spiders (Kidsmoke) How To Fight Loneliness You and I Forget The Flowers Someday, Some Morning, Sometime Laminated Cat When You Wake Up Feeling Old War On War Passenger Side I Must Be High ----out of acoustic set---- Airline To Heaven Via Chicago Theologians You Never Know Jesus, etc. Hate It Here Heavy Metal Drummer I'm Always In Love Walken I'm The Man Who Loves You Thank You Friends ---------------------- Dreamer In My Dreams Casino Queen> Outtasite (Outta Mind)
Yes, you counted that right, folks. 39 songs.
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A Thieve's Parade 2/24 Conspirator 2/26 Kevin Smith 3/11 Keller 3/17 Papadosio 3/18 JJ Grey 3/25 Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer 3/26 Toubab Krewe 3/27 O'Death 4/11 Budos Band 4/22 EOTO 4/28 Summer Camp 5/6-29 All Good
Post by candyflippedaround on Apr 9, 2010 3:02:16 GMT -5
saw A Wilhelm Scream in lowell last week. pretty good show, probably no more than 75 people in a church basketball court, went in knowing nothing about them except to expect (lol at typing that) a lot of screaming and anger. i was impressed, not my typical "scene, guy" but it was fun. im more used to people dancing than pushing each other around though.
my friend was at that Wilco show i believe, tickets were first prize in weekly trivia. my team losed
Had a big week of shows after a lengthy drought...
Last Sunday I saw The xx with openers JJ. JJ was absolutely terrible, the lead singer seemed like she wanted to be anywhere else but on the stage performing and her partner was on stage every third song or so seemingly only to apologize to his partner for being so wasted. Interesting sound that I might give a listen to on album (kind of like Massive Attack meets the original score from The Beach) but I would pass on JJ live. The xx were good but not great as headliners. I would say if you are into the album then you will like their show but over 45 minutes in a club setting it gets a little sleepy. That being said, the group's stage presence has improved from early show reviews, they make good use of lighting effects, and the female co-lead has a great voice. Highlights included Night Time, Basic Space, and their cover of You've Got the Love.
On Wednesday I went to the same venue to see Wolf Parade. It had been about 4 years since I last saw them and was quite excited to see how they had evolved. This show could not have been more different than the xx gig; the energy level was much higher in the audience, the volume was turned way up, and Wolf Parade has working the crowd down to a science. Every hit that Wolf Parade played had the crowd in a frenzy and was performed in such a tight manner. My initial complaint after the show was that 80% of their set was new material from an album that is not yet out. The crowd was quite unfamiliar with all the new songs but they sounded great and were performed well so in that sense they pulled it of. Wolf Parade are well worth checking out.
Last night I saw Girls with openers The Dum Dum Girls, this was an excellent show! The Dum Dum Girls were at first a little annoying to me based solely on the shtick they were presenting; their outfits, their stage presence, their cliche sound, made them seem like a 60's surfer punk band crafted from the mind of Quentin Tarantino. By the third song, after I had decided to give them a chance, I was sold. These girls for all the cliche were extremely tight and committed and the sound they were going for charmed me. Though most of their set had very little variation from song to song their were enough slight changes every third song or so to keep things interesting and the whole lo-fi/ reverb vibe came off quite well. Girls were also extremely good. With very little to play the band had to go into some extended jams, which you might think wouldn't work given their sort of Beach Boys update sound, and these guys are very musically gifted. There were two or three strong guitar solo's which were eventually met by a keyboard, drum, bass, wall of psychedelic sound. Upon running out of material, Girls finished of the night with a couple of sweet 1950's a.m radio classics which also worked well to win over an already loving crowd. If this double bill passes through your area check it out.
^^ That's the way all shows should be imo. They should make it worth the money they charge.
I agree. And if musicians hope to earn a living in this age of illegal downloading, there needs to be an increased emphasis on the live experience. Other than a handful of CDs each year, that's about the only time I actually spend money on music any more.
Post by questionablesanity on Apr 10, 2010 16:55:12 GMT -5
It's sad to say but I haven't paid for music in a long time. But, I spend a shit load of cash on shows. I used to buy a shirt or album at every show too until t shirts starting costing $25 and more.
A Thieve's Parade 2/24 Conspirator 2/26 Kevin Smith 3/11 Keller 3/17 Papadosio 3/18 JJ Grey 3/25 Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer 3/26 Toubab Krewe 3/27 O'Death 4/11 Budos Band 4/22 EOTO 4/28 Summer Camp 5/6-29 All Good
saw vampire weekend last night at stubb's. great show, good vibes. ezra kept saying how he felt like crap this morning and how he had thought he wasn't going to feel good but because of what a good audience we were he was having a lot of fun. they didn't play as much new stuff as i would have liked ironically, i really wanted them to play "i think you're a contra".
Post by theshining on Apr 15, 2010 19:04:25 GMT -5
Saw Dr. Dog last night and they were really really good! I didn't know much about them except that I had started listening to Shame Shame to get into them before Bonnaroo. As it turns out they have a very varied catalogue (at least from what they played). I saw them at a small local venue and the crowd was definitely a die hard Dr. Dog fanbase. They were very energetic, musically tight, and the had quite the lighting backdrop. Worth seeing again at Roo
Post by questionablesanity on Apr 16, 2010 7:11:34 GMT -5
I went to see Andreas Kapsalis and Goran Ivanovich last night at a free show on campus in an old church. I had never heard of these guys but my friend Tim invited me, so I biked in and was amazed. Apparently Andreas, when he was a child, had an accident making an instrument and cut a tendon in his wrist. He never thought he'd be able to play again but perservered and now he plays like this. He developed an 8 finger tapping method and his playing is very percussive. I actually thought my phone kept vibrating throughout the show, but it was the vibration from his guitar.
A Thieve's Parade 2/24 Conspirator 2/26 Kevin Smith 3/11 Keller 3/17 Papadosio 3/18 JJ Grey 3/25 Bela Fleck/Edgar Meyer 3/26 Toubab Krewe 3/27 O'Death 4/11 Budos Band 4/22 EOTO 4/28 Summer Camp 5/6-29 All Good
Post by strumntheguitar on Apr 16, 2010 8:46:08 GMT -5
Flaming Lips last night in Charlottesville was pretty awesome. They busted out a lot of new songs surprisingly. They played Eclipse as part of the encore, and I gotta admit... it was the low point of the show for me. It wasn't bad, per se... just... cluttered. Part of the magic of Floyd I always thought was they had so few people creating so many amazing sounds. Not nearly as euphoric as I had hoped...
Regardless, a phenomenal show and well worth the high price of admission